Seated Couple in Café Size:A4 The regiment was sent to

The regiment was sent to serve in the American Revolutionary War in June 1775 and took part in several engagements over the next 8 years

To quote Robert Pirsig - 'we keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives'

In April 1812 this shortage of engineer soldiers was tackled by restructuring the Royal Military Artificers as the Sappers and Miners (given Royal status as the Royal Sappers and Miners from 1813)

neglected artefacts - the junk and detritus most 'normal' folk discard and throw away

In the beginning the Guard Lighthorse were armed with sabers

Seated Couple in Café Size:A4 The regiment was sent toSeated couple lost in thought in a Caf, with vaqgue awareness of being observed. This delightful print from an original acrylic painting by John Wheeler, captures a frozen moment in time. John spends time observing his subjects whilst making numerous spontaneous sketches, which are then painstakingly reworked in the studio. Much of his work is with mixed media, painted on whatver material is at hand in this instance a used piece of rough plywood.